Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - CHAPTER I. Contrasts — Development of Norwegian tourist traffic — Passengers on the ‘Argo,’ and their tub of introduction — Whales — The Norwegian coast — Stavanger — Glacier vestiges in the High Street — Bergen — Indoor ivy — A Church of England Service conducted in the spirit of Primitive Christianity — Northward Ho! — Aalesund — Christiansund — Delay and disappointment — Trondhjem — Northern luxury — The Cathedral — The Falls of the Nid — A terraced valley — Prosperous farmers — The “Störhaus”— Glacial origin of the terraces.
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on my refusal to pay them more than one dollar.
This was quite a new experience to me in Norway.
The resemblance of these fellows to the boatmen
and porters who infest the docks, &c., of the
Thames, and prey upon helpless foreigners landing
there, was more obvious than agreeable. The
hotel keepers of Bergen have not yet grasped the
idea of providing themselves with a wheelbarrow
of their own, and instructing one of their servants
to take charge of passengers’ luggage. In
Christiania civilization has now advanced to this
point.
A sunny welcome adds much to the pleasure of
landing in a strange country. This may be
received at Christiania, and traditional accounts of
sunny days in Bergen are extant, but the tourist
must not expect to see them. Bergen enjoys the
distinction of being the rainiest city in Europe.
It is the fatherland of drizzle; it receives above
82 inches of water per annum, nearly five times as
much as falls in corresponding latitudes in Sweden,
above three and a half times the quantity that is
poured upon equal areas of London, Edinburgh,
Dublin, or even Glasgow, and more than four
times as much as on St. Petersburg. The “gentle
rain” was dropping lightly and steadily when
we landed, and continued with a familiar
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